A local national park will reopen for the season on Friday.
The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn will reopen for the season on Friday. Park officials said the park will be open from 10:00a-4:00p on Fridays and Saturdays until the park closes for the season on October 31.
Park officials also noted that special events and programs will take place throughout the year, including events to celebrate Juneteenth, Underground Railroad Week, and America’s 250th anniversary. The America 250th events will have a key focus on “Harriet Tubman’s legacy of working for a more perfect union.”
The park operates on the Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church and neighboring parsonage on Parker Street, the church that Tubman attended. In 1913, her funeral was held there before her internment at the nearby Fort Hill Cemetery.
After escaping slavery in Maryland, Tbman would serve as a conductor on the Underground Railroad as well as a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Tubman, a friend of the Seward family, would move to the Auburn area in the 1850s.
